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Each year Deloitte's TMT Predictions reveal the perspectives gained from hundreds of conversations with industry leaders, and tens of thousands of consumer interviews across the globe. Here you'll find the complete reports from predictions of the past few years.

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TMT Predictions 2015

Our objective with TMT Predictions is to identify critical inflection points that we believe should inform industry strategic thinking, and to explain how we think these will manifest over the next 12-18 months for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.

TMT Predictions 2014

2014's TMT Predictions hit the mark with 13 of the 14 predictions hitting a more than 70% accuracy rate. View the TMT Predictions report card for 2014.

TMT Predictions' objective is to identify critical inflection points we believe should inform industry strategic thinking, and to explain how we think these will manifest over the next 12-18 months for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.

Technology predictions

Explore the future in Technology: Sales of smartphones, tablets, PCs, TV sets and videogame consoles set to exceed $750 billion; What can we expect in wearable computers and other new device form factors? The emergence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), and how will faster broadband boost online healthcare: eVisits

Learn more about the individual Technology predictions:

The $750 billion converged living room: a plateau approaches

Wearables: the eyes have it

One became many: the tablet market stratifies

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs): not yet disruptive, but the future looks bright

eVisits: the 21st century housecall

Media predictions

Explore the future in Media: Pay-television—cord cutting or increased subscriptions? Increased accuracy in measuring television viewing including viewership on devices; The continuing growth in value of premium sports broadcast rights; A growth story in recorded music performance rights set to exceed one billion dollars, and how use of satellite links impact the growth of ‘cordless’ video-on-demand (VOD) in countries with low bandwidth?

Learn more about the individual Media predictions:

Doubling up on pay-TV

Television measurement: for better and worse

Broadcast sports rights: premium plus

Performance rights lift recorded music revenues

'Cordless' video-on-demand leaps in Sub-Saharan Africa

Telecommunications predictions

Explore the future in Telecoms: Short messaging services vs. instant messaging? Phablets a $125billion market led out of Asia; Smartphone penetration set to rise in the over 55 group, and the costs of ‘ruggedized’ data devices is set to decline.

TMT Predictions 2013

Launched in January 2013, TMT Predictions are Deloitte's view of the key developments over the next 12-18 months that are likely to have significant medium- to long-term impacts for companies in Technology, Media, Telecommunications (TMT), and other industries.

Member firms hosted launch events worldwide, and several have created their own locally relevant Predictions reports, tailored specifically to their markets, including the South East Asia perspective (Bahasa translation) and reports from India and China.

TMT Predictions 2012

2012 marked the eleventh year of Deloitte's TMT Predictions. What started in 2001 with ten predictions about mobile telephony has evolved and grown into one of Deloitte’s Technology, Media & Telecommunications group’s most anticipated research publications, covering all three converging industries. The 2012 TMT Predictions report includes the following content:

Technology predictions:

Consumer tech demand defies the economic headwinds

It takes two to tablet: the rise of the multi-tablet owner

Billions and billions: big data becomes a big deal

Hard times for the hard disk: solid state storage surges

Ambient radio frequency power harvesting: a drop in the bucket

3D printing is here – but the factory in every home isn’t here yet!

Media predictions:

Targeted television advertisements miss the point

The schedule dominates, still

All aboard for the catch-up commuter thanks to the portable DVR

A “brand” new day for online ads

Market research is all in your head: MRI machines and media

Extracting the premium from social games

Online coupon intermediaries: from novelty, to celebrity, to sizeable niche

Telecommunications predictions:

The $100 “smartphone” reaches its first half billion

NFC and mobile devices: payments and more!

Web bypass: delivering connectivity without the Internet

Here come more data caps: it’s the end of the (wire)line for unlimited Internet

TMT Predictions 2011

The 2011 Predictions marked a major milestone as the 10th edition of Deloitte's Predictions for the technology, media & telecommunications (TMT) sector. History and trivia buffs can download the full report of the 2011 TMT Predictions here.

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